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Word: grower (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since the Japanese surrender last August, Generalissimo Chiang's Government has cracked down on opium dens in Peiping and Tientsin, ordered the destruction of poppy fields. All addicts must give up the habit in eight months or suffer severe punishment. A grower of poppies, a purveyor, or a pill-smoker caught in his third offense may be punished by death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Thirty Million New Addicts | 1/7/1946 | See Source »

...home at dusk from an afternoon's jack rabbit-shooting in the flat, dusty San Joaquin Valley, Levi Multanen, 33, thought of his nephew, long missing in the South Pacific. That reminded him how much he hated Japs. Passing the home of Nisei Charles Iwasaki, a raisin-grape grower, Rancher Multanen paused. He knew who lived there-a Jap. Impulsively he leveled his shotgun, fired four times. He walked home, feeling better. The Iwasakis, scared but unwounded, did nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Community Arrangement | 6/11/1945 | See Source »

...this afternoon he was going to a barbecue. He had told his friend Jess Long, Georgia peach grower, to "make some of that good Brunswick stew of yours." In the evening, the polio patients at his beloved Warm Springs Foundation were going to give a minstrel show for him. He was looking forward to both affairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afternoon on Pine Mountain | 4/23/1945 | See Source »

Andrew Green was one of Santayana's students. He went into business in Chicago to make money quickly, made it, retired, went to China, hired a junk and sailed leisurely up & down the great rivers. Eventually he settled in the British West Indies as a fruit grower, and married a slight, wise, well-read Negro girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Philosopher's Friends | 4/23/1945 | See Source »

...could be sold. With that information, plus $125,000 and the merchandising experience gained as general manager of the tabloid Los Angeles Daily News (a job he still holds), Smith charged last year into the flower business. It took him just seven months to become the No. 1 combination grower-wholesaler-retailer in the nation's $300,000,000 floral industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIAGE TRADE: Flying Flora | 3/12/1945 | See Source »

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